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} |} The Beechcraft Queen Air is a twin-engined light aircraft produced by Beechcraft in several different versions from 1960 to 1978. Based upon the Twin Bonanza, with which it shared key components such as wings, engines, and tail surfaces, but featuring a larger fuselage, it served as the basis for the highly successful King Air series of turboprop aircraft. It is often used as a private aircraft, a utility, or a small commuter airliner. Production ran for 17 years. ==Design and development== The company's Twin Bonanza was reaching the limits of development so Beechcraft decided to develop a design with a larger fuselage and new tail which it designated the Beech 65. Early in development the United States Army which had been a customer of the Twin Bonanza (which it called the L-23 Seminiole), order 68 aircraft under the designation L-23F. The prototype Beech 65 first flew on 28 August 1958. The Queen Air is a twin-engined nine-seat low-wing cantilever cabin monoplane with a retractable landing gear with a nose wheel. Initially powered by two Lycoming IGSO-480 six-cylinder, horizontally opposed piston engine. The Model 65 received a Federal Aviation Authority type certificate on the 4 February 1959 and the first deliveries were made soon after. On 8 February 1960 a Queen Air achieved a new height record of 34,862 feet. The basic Model 65 was in production until 1967 when the improved Model A65 with a swept rather than vertical tail was introduced. Production continued with further variants introducing pressurisation and turboprop engines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beechcraft Queen Air」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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